CVE-2014-7272

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) before 0.10.0 allows local users to gain root privileges because code running as root performs write operations within a user home directory, and this user may have created links in advance (exploitation requires the user to win a race condition in the ~/.Xauthority chown case, but not other cases).

• CWE-264

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610Issue Tracking
• https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280Patch
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141494.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141550.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/06/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149610Issue Tracking
• https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/280Patch

Published

Mar 8, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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